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  Improving coupling reliability

  Chuck Sakers, Couplings Technology Leader, Kop-Flex, at Regal Beloit discusses torque monitoring, the importance of coupling reliability, and how to gain more value from existing couplings. Regal Beloit ...

  On July 7, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Capstone end users save $219m and 368k tons of carbon for FY2020

  During fiscal year 2020, Capstone Turbine saved end-use customers an estimated $219 million in annual energy costs and 368,000 tons of carbon. The fiscal 2020 results demonstrate continued ...

  On July 7, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  MHPS’s T-Point 2 enters commercial operation with 60 Hz gas turbine

  MHPS’s T-Point 2 combined cycle power plant validation facility entered full commercial operation with an enhanced JAC gas turbine, which the company says set the record for output ...

  On July 2, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  EthosEnergy awarded five year multi-million dollar turbine maintenance contract by a major North Sea Operator

  EthosEnergy a service provider of rotating equipment services and solutions to the power, oil & gas and industrial markets, has been awarded a five-year, multi-million dollar turbine maintenance ...

  On July 2, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  NevadaNano modernizes combustible gas sensor technology, powers Backline Safety’s G7 wearables

  NevadaNano is partnering with Blackline Safety to modernize combustible gas detection systems. NevadaNano’s line of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based gas sensors, the Molecular Property Spectrometer (MPS) flammable gas sensors, ...

  On July 2, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Digitalization and the internet-of-things driving turbomachinery controls market

  Control systems are advancing to keep pace with changing turbomachinery needs. Gas turbines are now even being developed to run on hydrogen and control systems will play a ...

  On July 2, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Shanghai Electric and Ansaldo Energia to build 800 MW combined cycle power plant in Bangladesh

  The consortium between Shanghai Electric Group and Ansaldo Energia has signed a contract with North West Power Generation Company Ltd. for the design, procurement and construction of an ...

  On July 2, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Overspeed impeller testing: Follow these guidelines to avoid trips and facilitate successful testing per API 617 standards

  By Mark Kuzdzal and Martin Maier Impeller overspeed testing is essential to ensuring the safety and reliability of centrifugal compressors. To meet API 617 requirements, compressor impellers must ...

  On July 2, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Siemens building combined cycle plant for chemical company

  Siemens Energy is building another combined cycle power plant for the specialty chemical company Evonik at its largest industrial location in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Consisting of one ...

  On June 29, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Turbomachinery controls market set for swift rebound

  A new report form ARC Advisory Group on turbine monitoring and controls finds it to be a dynamic segment ripe with product innovation. “This market has tremendous opportunities ...

  On June 29, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors